Denis Villeneuve Quotes
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Viola Davis is a perfect example of somebody who's so much better than the parts she has the opportunity to play.
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I have always appreciated the honest brutality of the international film world. One need never doubt one's worth in the market. Mine was zero.
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My heart has been stolen too - but I've gone and got it back every single time!
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In particular, I found praying very disturbing, like swimming with bricks tied to your feet. And yet I was drawn to it constantly.
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I can do everything with ease on the stage, whereas in real life I feel too big and clumsy. So I didn't choose acting. It chose me.
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We have a George Foreman grill on the bus.
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Most interviewers are looking for a headline. They're not skilled. They're looking for shock value.
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Nashville is my home, and the reason why I get to do what I love.
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When you're governor, you've got to step up to the plate; you've got to make a proposal for a balanced budget. That's the requirement. And then you've got to sit down and negotiate if the folks that you need to work with disagree with you on points.
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Wine, like food, is so emotional. If you think about it, so much of the courting ritual is surrounded by wine and food. There's a built-in romance to wine.
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A manager wins games in the winter when he picks his team.
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September 11 is one of our worst days but it brought out the best in us. It unified us as a country and showed our charitable instincts and reminded us of what we stood for and stand for.
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Once you have a central character who announces in the first five minutes of the show that he feels whooped by life and that he's had enough, I'm in. I'm hooked.
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The world I travel is my inspiration. I name my dresses after cities that inspire me.
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You know, episodic TV directing is a very long and arduous job. You have very short schedules, short short shooting days, and you have to get lot of pages done.
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Writing is a way of living. It doesn't quite matter that there are too many books for the number of readers in the world to read them. It's a way of being alive for the writer.
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I was part of the generation that pushed the Internet. In fact, I broke as an artist in the U.S.A. because of the Internet.
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Politics is like boxing - you try to knock out your opponents.
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Taylor's Law states: 'The Foreign Office knows no secrets.'
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Major actions by courageous and wise men will be necessary to avoid our continuing to blunder into the space age like unenlightened and selfish idiots.
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If you wish to try and take something from me, then you had best be prepared to give your life in the process.
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Comedy is a distortion of what is happening, and there will always be something happening.
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I think from my experience in war and life and science, it all has made me believe that we have one life on this planet. We have one chance to live it and to contribute to the future of society and the future of life. The only 'afterlife' is what other people remember of you.
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I like the idea that cinema is a spectacle.
